Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.

Framed as a playful reversal of a common self-help cliché (“X is not the answer; X is the question”), the line treats sex not as a solution to life’s problems but as an invitation to consent, curiosity, and affirmation. The punchline—“Yes” as the answer—can be read as championing an open, sex-positive stance, while also foregrounding the ethical centrality of consent: sex is a question that must be answered affirmatively. At the same time, the joke’s simplicity risks flattening sexual complexity (desire, power, safety, and ambivalence) into a single affirmative, which is precisely what gives it its comic edge and its potential for critique.